Cornacahan

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornacahan, from 1,955 m² to 243,695 m² (24.37 ha, 60.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cornacahan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 21 Aug 2023Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCTION OF ONE ENERCON E138 WIND TURBINE ON A 99M TOWER WITH AN ELECTRICAL RATING OF 4.2MW AND AN OVERALL TIP HEIGHT OF 169M, (B) THE CONSTRUCTION OF WIND TURBINE FOUNDATION, HARDSTANDING AND ASSEMBLY AREA, (C) PROVISION OF A SITE ENTRANCE AND AN ACCESS TRACK WITHIN THE SITE, (D) CONSTRUCTION OF AN ON-SITE 20KV SUBSTATION AND UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351240

• 15 Jul 2022Refused

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) ONE ENERCON E138 WIND TURBINE ON AN 81M TOWER WITH AN ELECTRICAL RATING OF 4.2MW AND AN OVERALL TIP HEIGHT OF 149.38 (B) THE WIND TURBINE FOUNDATION, HARDSTANDING AND ASSEMBLY AREA (C) AN ON-SITE 20KV SUBSTATION AND UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLE (2) DEVELOPMENT OF A SITE ENTRANCE AND AN ACCESS TRACK WITHIN THE SITE (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251214

• 6 Feb 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF ONE WIND TURBINE COMPRISING TOWER, NACELLE, AND ROTOR BLADES WITH A TOWER HEIGHT OF UP TO 67M METRES, A ROTOR BLADE DIAMETER OF UP TO 115.7 METRES AND AN OVERALL TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 124.5 METRES. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES A WIND TURBINE, TURBINE FOUNDATION, HARDSTANDING AND ASSEMBLY AREA, SITE ACCESS TRACK, ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE WORKS, UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLE, 20kV ESB/IPP SUBSTATION AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950132

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cornacahan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cornacahan.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cornacahan.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Cornacahan, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1127 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Cornacahan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Cornacahan

Area

547,609 m² (54.76 ha, 135.32 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Killybegs, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Killybegs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,333 people lived in 880 households in the Killybegs electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cullion, Cunlin, Meenyhooghan

Placenames

Cornacahan on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.